This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Andrei Soroker, CEO at Fogbender, a B2b customer support tool for API-first companies. We often discuss how to secure the right development tools and scale your API program from there, but we often don't talk enough about supporting the thing when it's out in the wild. Supporting APIs is innately complex, and Andrei shared his perspective on the matter. _____ To subscribe to the podcast, visit https://stoplight.io/podcast --- API...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Eric Yu, a co-founder of Rutter API, a universal API aggregator for various types of business software tasked with standardizing all APIs into a unified format. They focus on two primary buckets: Ecommerce ecosystems apps, and fintech customers. Rutter lets customers connect their accounting, commerce, payment, and subscription platforms in a single flow. A universal API aggregator is a great solution to scale quickly, and we covered...

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Gil Feig, Co-Founder of Merge, a company focused on building unified APIs that users can embed into their products and offer integrations to their customers. Merge offers one API to integrate with all HR, payroll, directory, recruiting, accounting, ticketing, and CRM platforms. During his enterprise engineering days, Gil noticed a constant need for companies to integrate their software with other platforms via APIs, so he sought to...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Wesley Beary–Architect of Engineering Practices and Culture, previously at Salesforce Technology. We originally reached out to Wesley after writing about the history of API Style Guides, as he played a key role in publishing one of the first open sourced API standards. However, that was many years ago, and Wesley has continued to grow into a broader role at Salesforce after Heroku was acquired. Focused on people, innovation, and...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Sachin Castelino, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer (CSTO) at In-Solutions Global Ltd. This company provides real-time payment services to financial institutions and is now expanding that to merchants, government entities, and education institutions. And–they are also a Stoplight customer! Sachin has been at In-Solutions Global for over a decade, participating in everything from Hr, project management, tech, and product. Here,...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Barb Maclean, who up until very recently worked her entire career at Celero Solutions as a VP of Integrations and Analytics. She is now a founder of her own company barbmaclean.co. With her over twenty years at Celero, a credit union company, she’s helped grow her team exponentially and make transformational change via their API program. She started at the help desk, dabbled in a product role, and eventually expanded all the way up to...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Mathieu Rasse, Founder & CEO of Meta API, a company focused on helping developers to integrate and create automation between the APIs. As a member of the API aggregator space, Mathieu is responsible for spreading the good word about using aggregator platforms like Meta for any OpenAPI integration and educating people about OpenAPI benefits. To subscribe to the podcast, visit https://stoplight.io/podcast Do you have a question...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Olivia Califano, Senior Product Manager, API & Developer Tools at Procore Technologies, a construction management software company. Procore is focused on connecting all the stakeholders in a construction project, from owners to general contractors. Olivia focuses on API governance and developer tools, ensuring that teams are building with consistency and following best practices and standards. She primarily focuses on internal...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted with Ikenna Nwaiwu, API Product Owner at 10x Future Technologies. What helped Ikenna Nwaiwu become a better product manager, a more well-rounded developer, and craft a stronger API strategy was focusing on creating APIs with a product mindset and a design-first approach. To subscribe to the podcast, visit https://stoplight.io/podcast Do you have a question you'd like answered, or a topic you want to see in a future episode? Let us know...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted with Charles Araujo, Publisher of The Digital Experience Report, industry analyst, and keynote speaker. Charlie has seen it all, from running large-scale transformation programs to authoring "The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change" to founding the Institute for Digital Transformation. This all makes him the perfect guest to dive into the bigger picture of how API technology is truly changing the world on...

Developer relations (DevRel) is an increasingly rising industry, growing as a reflection of software's ubiquity in the business world — and the growing power of the developer to influence what products and platforms their employers use. But, what makes a good Developer Advocate and strong DevRel program? This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted with Rizel Scarlett, Developer Relations Engineer at Github, to get her opinion on how to measure a DevRel program's success and...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted Brenton House, Vice President of Digital Evangelism at Software AG. As an API OG who started working with APIs in the 90s, Brenton House is definitely an expert in the API space. His current goal is helping others fully understand the space and get started in the industry. For young developers, product people newly saddled with needing to include “APIs” in their products, or for business stakeholders simply wanting to learn more about...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Gleb Polyakov, Co-founder & CEO at Nylas, a Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) that reimagines business communication via APIs. We talked to Gleb about the pervasiveness of APIs and how you can best involve various stakeholders in your API strategy to ensure success. Check out Nylas's communication platform here https://www.nylas.com/ -- (Psst! They're hiring) Do you have a question you'd like answered, or a topic you...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Giora Engel, Co-Founder and CEO at Neosec. While API security is always a hot topic (check out our other episode on this with Curity on the matter), we can never get enough of how to improve and ensure it's a vital consideration of the entire API development lifecycle. Giora sat down with us to explain some of the critical things security teams seek from API developers and how we can all partner for secure and effective APIs. At the...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Shanae Chapman, senior UX researcher at HashiCorp and founder of Nerdy Diva, which focuses on inclusive design and empowering the next generation of designers and developers with knowledge and resources to succeed in a technology career and make for a long-lasting, community impact. When it comes to creating a more inclusive API program, Shanae stresses that you should "start with the highest impact, high-priority, high-traffic...

This week’s podcast episode comes with a little bit of a twist. A bonus episode, if you will–with your’s truly and my talented co-host, Anna Daugherty. But let’s first take a step back and reflect. It’s been a little over a year since we launched our podcast, . Time flies when you’re having fun, right? We’ve now interviewed more than 30 of the world’s top API experts, innovative developers, and technology change-makers. Whether it was folks creating programs from scratch, transforming...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted with Balan Subramanian, Partner Director of Product for Azure App Platform Services at Microsoft. At Microsoft, he leads the product team that works on the Azure app platform. This includes microservices frameworks such as Dapr, cloud services such as Azure API platform, Azure Logic Apps for integration, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Spring Apps and a few other services. Additionally, Balan is responsible for ecosystem enablement for...

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted with Ryan Clifford, API Product Lead, and Matthew Forrest, API Product Manager, at Fiserv. Fiserv is a Fortune 500 fintech company with around 40,000 people across the globe and an API team of 20 that focuses on enabling money movement for thousands of financial institutions and millions of businesses. Full disclosure, they also are a Stoplight customer, so stay tuned for more details about their success in an upcoming case study Trying...

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In this episode of API Intersection, we chatted with Travis Spencer. As the CEO of Curity, a leading supplier of API-driven identity management, and Co-Founder of Nordic APIs, he brought a great perspective on what we can expect in the API security space in the coming months. Curity's Identity Server brings identity and API security together to create secure user access to apps and websites. Travis joined us to discuss the latest API security trends and where program leaders can get started...

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In a slightly different format for our API Intersection podcast, we had the opportunity to welcome Sally Eaves, a vibrant emergent Technology CTO and Global Strategy Advisor living at her own intersection of technology, education, and impact. Eaves brings a background as a technology leader and is now an advisor to various technology companies on everything from APIs, IoT, and 5G, to AI and blockchain. Her focus is showing technology leaders how to integrate new technologies not just for the...

When it comes to defining developer experience, it's not just about the technology; it's about the people who are using it, the processes put in place behind it to ensure a quality experience, and the organization's overall culture. But what does starting that journey actually look like? What are the pain points? What are the important things to keep in mind? In this episode of API Intersection, we speak with Travis Gosselin, Principal Software Engineer at SPS Commerce, to answer exactly...

We spoke with Jason Bahl, Principal Software Engineer at WP Engine in our latest API Intersection podcast episode. Bahl is the creator and maintainer of WPGraphQL, a free, open-source WordPress plugin that provides an extendable GraphQL schema and API for any WordPress site. Bahl helps reduce friction for developers and site owners who want to use WordPress as a CMS. GraphQL is an open-source specification for data retrieval from server to client. We had the pleasure of discussing REST...